Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We're taking you through the book of Joshua. Today we're in

chapters 13 through 15. And you kind of broke down the sections of Joshua for us earlier, Scott,

and we're entering a section now that's a bit more challenging just to slog through as a reader.

Can you guide us a bit as we enter this section?

Yeah, it's funny.

These probably are the most engaging chapters of Joshua, but they might be the most important chapters of Joshua.

Because in the overall story of scripture, it is really hard to exaggerate the

importance of what happens in the next several chapters, because we're watching now the actual

fulfillment of the promise God made to Abraham to give his descendants to this land.

This is a really, really big deal. And chapters like this would have been very important

to the original audience. And to kind this would have been very important to the original

audience. And to kind of give a flyover of today's chapters with chapter 13, it starts with a

list of areas in the promised land that still need to be conquered. The conquest isn't fully done,

followed by a recap of the two and a half tribes who inherited land east of the Jordan River.

Chapter 14, we begin to see how the land was divided up among the remaining nine and a half

tribes. And we start with Caleb specifically in 14, who, if you'll remember back in numbers,

along with Joshua's, one of the spies who scouted off the land and said, it's actually a great land. We need to go take it. So I'll be obedient to the Lord. But he's one of the spies who scouted out the land and said, it's actually a great land.

We need to go take it.

So I'll be obedient to the Lord.

But he's one of the few over a certain age who survived the wilderness and is now going into the lands.

And then in 15, we get to the land allotted to the tribe of Judah.

And chapters 15 through 17 are really all about the tribes of Judah, Ephraim, and

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